this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
8 points (83.3% liked)

Buildapc

5779 readers
1 users here now

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Lemmenmo@lemmy.world
8
Win10 PC Refuses to Boot (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by dotCody@lemmy.world to c/buildapc@lemmy.world
16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I dont know what to do. It won't boot at all now. Just gets stuck on the asus logo. Bad motherboard perhaps? How could I check? Buy a new motherboard and hope it fixes the issue?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Look up the stop code. It's there for a reason. driver_pnp_watchdog infers a driver failed during boot. Look for how to solve that using windows' own repair tool.

[–] dotCody@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The BSOD was a one off. Now the thing refuses to boot and gets stuck on the asus logo or the automatic repair every couple of forced shutdowns. Is my motherboard faulty??

[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

You need to run a checklist from least invasive to most invasive to be sure. Do you have a means to run a liveboot of any random Linux distro to just see whether the system will boot from it? If it does, it's probably not your motherboard but more likely a damaged drive.

[–] teft@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The asus logo is often just the windows logo with a theme applied. Can you boot into safe mode at all?

[–] dotCody@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope. Stuck stuck stuck on the logo every single time now.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You can't get to UEFI?
Pressing Del or F1 way before this logo shows up?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Given your downvote I assume you can't get to UEFI before UEFI starts booting Windows (in the pic), that the keyboard presses do nothing.

This might be basic, but have you checked if the keyboard or keyboard connection is faulty?
(I mean trying with a different keyboard or a different set of USB ports.)

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I would expect your boot drive to fail before your motherboard.

Do you have a windows installer or something else you can boot off of? If that boots then your board is probably fine.